Safe Landing Strategy in Older Adults

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Fall Injury; Fall Safety; Fall Prevention

Treatments: Other: Fall Exposure; Other: Tuck and Roll Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03540082

17577

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purposes of this project to examine whether older adults can learn safe landing strategy during a fall. The research hypotheses are three-fold: 1) To determine whether older adults can learn a safe landing strategy to reduce impact severity of falling; 2) To examine whether the training effect on the right side falls can be transferred to the left side falls; and 3) To examine 1-week and 3-month retention effect of fall strategy training in older adults.

Enrollment: 90 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• BMI 18.5-30 kg/m2
• Healthy bone mass (2.5 SD of young)
• No tumbling experience

Exclusion criteria

• > 70 years old
• Bone fracture within 3 years
• Osteoporosis
• Blood thinners

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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90 participants in 3 patient groups

Fall Exposure

Active Comparator group

Description:

An instructor will implicitly be exposed to the falling technique. Each group will have 4 sessions to physically practice the skills with each practice session lasting about an hour.

Treatment:

Other: Fall Exposure

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Written instructions will be provided on the correct way to fall without physical practice.

Tuck and Roll Group

Other group

Description:

An instructor will explicitly verbally and visually demonstrate the falling technique and provide feedback on participant performance. Each group will have 4 sessions to physically practice the skills with each practice session lasting about an hour.

Treatment:

Other: Tuck and Roll Group